Re: [PATCH net-next,RFC 00/13] New fast forwarding path

On Thu, Jun 14, 2018 at 04:58:34PM -0700, David Miller wrote:

From: Tom Herbert <redacted>
Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2018 13:52:03 -0700

quoted

IIRC, there was a similar proposal a while back that want to bundle
packets of the same flow together (without doing GRO) so that they
could be processed by various functions by looking at just one
representative packet in the group. The concept had some promise, but
in the end it created quite a bit of complexity since at some point
the packet bundle needed to be undone to go back to processing the
individual packets.

You're probably talking about Edward Cree's SKB list stuff, and as
per his presenation at netconf 2 weeks ago he plans to revitalize
it given how Spectre et al. gives cause to reevaluate all bulking
techniques.

Are there patches for the proposal Edward did a while ago,
or was it just a concept?

Maybe we can somehow put things together, I just need some
batching method that works for IPsec and UDP. It does not
need to be exactly the one we proposing here.